There’s a moth riding the inside of an invisible cylinder as fast as he can downstairs around the light near where I get my mail.  These struggles seem minor to others, but to me they always pose a moral challenge.  Should I show the moth where the door is?  Beyond…

“THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET” OF THE HIGH COST OF HEALTHCARE or, “THE SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN”  by S. J. Hillenbrand, B.A., M.S.    Doctors Cause the High Price of Healthcare               It is widely accepted that the misdeeds of physicians are the reasons why so many people cannot receive…

Getting my car washed is one of the larger joys in my life. Now that I am just two or less payments away from full ownership of my car, I strangely find myself wanting to trade. Maybe it’s because of a few possible large expenses coming up, but maybe it’s…

Continued from Motivation When you suddenly find yourself locked out of your car that is in drive and stuck in a snow drift, your options are somewhat limited.  Your mind races.  Possibilities that had not occurred to you just moments before, such as freezing to death while huddled around your…

It’s funny how easy it is to do something when you have the proper motivation.  I’m sure the military is well aware of this through the use of drill sergeants.  Back when I was working out on a daily basis, my motivation wasn’t an inconsolably angry person in a smoky…

There are these people, you probably know them.  They are your birth parents and the people who raised you.  Sometimes these are the same people, sometimes not.  And like you, they are separate from you, individuals.  They party or they don’t, they have dreams, they sacrifice, they are selfish and…

Advice is a funny thing. Advice is nostalgic statements that people give out to help them feel better about their own choices in life. I’ve always believed that since most of the advice I’ve ever gotten has seemed off a little to me. Like the time I talked to my…

Lesson for all budding photographers out there: BE ORGANIZED. I may have a messy apartment, and maybe my desk is a little disheveled, but take a look at any part of my computer or the digital asset databases that I have domain over and you will see that they are…

Look at this… [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.817262&w=512&h=296&fv=] There’s creativity, and then there’s blow your mind creativity.  As a photographer among many accountants, I’m often labeled as an artist at my admitedly very corporate job.  And sometimes that feels good because I want to be someone different from the regular pack animal.  I’d…

It’s a very strange thing to look over some of the facebook/flashback pages of people from grade school that I left behind the day I moved on from 8th grade. I look over the friends of one person that I didn’t mind only to find that they are friends with…

Ninety-seven years ago today, an undersized rudder, brittle steel, faux smoke stacks, too few life boats and general human asshattery conspired to bring about one of the most widely publicized boating accidents in human history. “Iceberg, right ahead!” was the call and 37 seconds later the Titanic buckled her side…

    “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?” -Plato, 428 – 348 BC I was told by my father once that if you write down…